Leilani - Levitation

9 years 6 months ago - 9 years 6 months ago #407324 by jodib
Hi, I'd really love some suggestions on how I could improve this image :)


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9 years 6 months ago #407326 by Hassner
I think you lost the composition balance by having too much white bottom right and pitch black top left. A more even smoke distribution, maybe?
I see colour tone in the smoke, but you focal point is b&w. I'll keep some colour in the girl too.
There is too much contrast in the girl. Her tan marks are too obvious.


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9 years 6 months ago #407327 by jodib
Thankyou Hassner, I will give it a go. I think the tan line on her leg might even be the smoke overlay which is easy to fix :-)


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9 years 6 months ago #407384 by KCook
What fun !!!  My nit-pick is that it looks like a composite.  The smoke appears to be a simple overlay from a different image.  But I have no clue on how to remedy that.

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9 years 6 months ago #407394 by Ruben Wade
I like the direction you are going with this, the one thing that jumps out is that right arm looks odd... like it was cut out and placed there after the fact.  

Over all... cool!


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9 years 6 months ago #407401 by icepics
It looks like she was photoshopped in, I think the processing is too obvious. I don't think the color matches, the background looks rather blue-black while she looks more neutral gray. Seems to need to be blended better so it's fantasy yet believable.  

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9 years 6 months ago #407418 by Ted Baker
+1


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9 years 6 months ago #407430 by jodib
Thanks so much for everyone's comments. The girl was originally photographed outdoors in a forest with an attempt to 'have a go' at some levitation images as I am only a beginner in photography. Below is my original attempt but I thought it looked a bit tacky, so as another challenge I tried to add her to the smokey background. 
Trying to take suggestions on board, here's a new edit - maybe it's just time to send her to the trash can and do a proper studio shoot, although I am happy to play around in photoshop attempting to improve :-)


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9 years 6 months ago #407442 by Hassner
A big improvement from the first one!


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9 years 6 months ago #407460 by KCook
So is this new one another composite?  If so, I would try toning down the contrast in the background.  But the skin tones in the color version are a huge improvement over the B&W.

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9 years 6 months ago #409015 by Ian Stone

Hassner wrote: A big improvement from the first one!



+1  the second one works for me


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9 years 6 months ago #409289 by Simon Says
Both good ones...I like #2 though....


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9 years 5 months ago #409785 by Travel Nut
Beautiful for sure!


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